General Wikimedia issues, may be logged for meetings. In reality, often used for related discussions related to Meta-Wiki too, as well as other stuff which belongs to several channels of this list (or none). See also #wikimedia-stewards.

Users are sometimes redirected to this channel when they attempt to join a channel that is private (mode +i) or full (mode +l). Users can be invited into the channel that they tried to join originally by a user with op status (+o or an @ sign) in #wikimedia-overflow

Wikimedia stewards and steward requests. You get urgent help from stewards by saying !steward (use @steward for non-emergency discussion). This is an open channel, and may be logged for meetings, though should not be publicly logged. In reality, it's also used for most Meta-Wiki related maintenance discussions and requests; see also #wikimedia. Some stewards are voiced.

#wikipedia-en-accountsconnect is now a private channel, and you have been REDIRECTED here because you are not one or more of these: 1) Identified to NickServ, 2) Current, active member of ACC, 3) Identified to WMF. If you are here in error, need help, or have a question, please ping a voiced user in this channel.

Welcome to the channel for collaboration and disscusion regarding WikiProject Arkansas! – Keep discussion polite, reasonable and constructive. – If nobody is here leave a message at the WikiProject's talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Arkansas – If you don't want to post to wiki, then send Coffee (the project's coordinator) a memo with MemoServ.

Welcome to the IRC channel for the dispute resolution noticeboard – Need help, guidance or have a question? Ask. No one active in the channel? Add !volunteer to the front of your request – Keep discussions here polite, please :) – No public logging

HWY_bot stalks all current Featured Articles for WikiProject Highways, as well as all pages within its projectspace. Type !list to get the full list of pages sent to you in a PM. (WARNING: may take 20–30 minutes)

Home for the community for technical support, development and other discussions on wiki bots, wiki templates, mediawiki software and other software used by the Wikimedia community (see also Tech). Here wikimedians can also check, ask, report technical problems or issues and sysadmins will see. Publicly logged.

General channel for discussion of MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. Updates from several repositories are posted (and usually discussed) here, thanks to the grrrit-wm bot; check #mediawiki-feedconnect instead for a full feed from all repositories, including Phabricator updates. Publicly logged (old: wikipedia_usability, wikimedia-dev). (Formerly, it was the channel of the software development team at the Wikimedia Foundation, originally renamed from #wikipedia_usability.)

Team Practices Group channel for anyone to discuss engineering/product development practices, processes, philosophy, theory, etc, as it pertains to Wikimedia and beyond. Also used for Team Practices Group team coordination/conversation. Publicly logged.

The following channels are for discussion of specific tools developed (or under development) for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. These channels (like all the others on this page) are not owned, operated, or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

These public channels exist in some fashion. They should be moved/sorted above where appropriate, mentioned in other sections where inactive but of historical interest, or removed if abandoned or otherwise deprecated.

Currently a recent changes channel for a bot that will send messages to assist administrators and users. This channel is not official yet nor has consensus been determined. See http://is .gd/POpkmg for discussion. – #cvn-wikidata is the official recent changes channel, but has a different type of changes feed. – -rc + wd Page name to add a page to watch list

Welcome to the Latin Wikisource http://la.wikisource.org a place to discuss the content and procedures of the Latin Wikisource. Discussion may be in any language but English will get the most participation.

These are live Recent changes feeds, hosted on the irc.wikimedia.org server, which show edits on the wiki automatically as they happen. The displayed URLs give the cumulative differences produced by the edit concerned and any subsequent edits; The time is not listed but timestamping may be provided by your IRC client. Confirmation that an edit has been processed is typically faster through IRC than through the browser.

Every one of the >730 Wikimedia wikis has an IRC RC feed. The channel name is #subdomain.domain. For example, the channel for German Wikibooks channel is #de.wikibooks, and the channel for WikiSpecies is #species.wikimedia. Projects without subdomains are treated as if they were Wikipedia languages, e.g. #wikidata.wikipedia.

If you wanted to have a filtered feed of recent changes of some project, you can use WM bot for that. The bot can be controlled by anyone with wikimedia cloak. It is possible to define a list of pages to watch, and the bot will then report the changes in simple format directly to the channel on freenode, providing a link to the diff.

Abuse monitoring channels unofficially patrol edits to counter vandalism and other abuse on Wikimedia wikis. These usually contain IRC bots that list suspicious edits with information such as the editor, edit summary, size change, and diff link.

Most such channels are run by local operators with the technical assistance of the CVN staff; to contact the staff, request access to a restricted channel, or discuss wiki countervandalism, see #countervandalism.